Constance Calenda
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Constance Calenda (Italian: Costanza or Constanza Calenda; fl. 1415) was an Italian surgeon specializing in diseases of the eye.[1] She studied at the University of Salerno, and was one of the women known as the "ladies of Salerno".[1]
Calenda was the daughter of Salvator Calenda, the dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Salerno c. 1415, and afterwards dean of the faculty at Naples. Constance, under the instruction of her father, seems to have obtained special honors for her medical examination. It is possible but unconfirmed that she obtained the degree of doctor of Medicine at the University of Naples.[2]
References
- ^ a b Walsh JJ. 'Medieval Women Physicians' in Old Time Makers of Medicine: The Story of the Students and Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages, ch. 8, (Fordham University Press; 1911) (accessed 22 August 2007)
- ^ L. Whaley: Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800
External links
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles containing Italian-language text
- Year of birth unknown
- 15th-century deaths
- Medieval women physicians
- 15th-century Italian women
- 15th-century Italian physicians
- Medieval surgeons
- All stub articles
- Italian medical biography stubs